Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
Disastrous Storm at New York,

NEW YORK. July ll.-lhe air was very
close tnis morning. Towards noon heavy
clouds filled the sky. Without any warn
ing terrible wind storm set in and thous-
ands of people out for days pleasure
were caught in the wild rush OF the ele-
ments. Trees were torn up by the roots,
in Central park and at the Battery the
wooden fence around Castle Garden on the
South side was blown down. On Sixth
avenue two trees were torn up by the
roots and carried some distance along the
river front and bay. The storm ragged
with great fury. Hundreds of sailboats
and other small vessels were out. Their
occupants experienced much difficulty in
making sale landing. The police patrol
boats at once stea med out in the bay to
assist the unfortunates. The crew rescued
about thirty occupants of capsized sail
boats. As far as can be learned at p. m.
no one was drowned but it is probable
that drownings have occurred. DR.. Cyrus
Edison, of the Health Board, was among
the rescued. They were taken from the
sinking boat off Clifton, Staten Island.
EIGHT MEN DROWNED.
NEW YORK, July lit is said that two
sail boats containing eight men we're cap
sized off Fort Hamilton, but no facts are to
be obtained. The crew under command of
Capt. Thomas were preparing for Il voyage
to Porto Rico. Its cargo was a quantity
of baled hay and $50 kegs of powder.
Lightning struck carboy of vitriol on deck
and exploded it, the blazing liquid flowing
into the hold and crept toward the powder
and hay. The panlcstricken crew took to
the boats, leaving Capt. Thomas, his mate
and a colored female cook on board. The
captain and his mate succeeded in quench-
ing the flames before the powder was
reached.
FIVE MEN DROWNED.
JERSEY CITY, July 1.-THE storm caused
considerable damage here. Large numbers
of trees and fences were destroyed. The
yacht Tough" of the this city was sailing
near Staten Island when the storm came
on. Those on board saw another yacht
with five persons go down. The crew OF
The though" were unable to render aid and
five men were drowned.
Weather Crop Bulletin,
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE following is
the weather crop bulletin OF the signal Office
for the week ending July 10th: During the
week ending July 18th, 1897, the weather
has been warmer than usual. except in the
Gulf States, Northern New England and on
the Pacific coast. the average daily excess
ranging from three to eight degrees from
the middle Atlantic States west to the
Rocky Mountains. 1t has been slightly
cooler than usual in the Co tton region and
IN the Pacific coast. The average was
from three to five degrees below nominal.
The season has been slightly cooler than
usual on the South Atlantic coast and
from Lake Superior west to the Pacific
coast during the week.
There has been deficiency in the rainfall
generally throughout the farming districts
| of the Rocky Mountains, except in Missou
ri, North Wisconsin, Colorado and Dako-
| ia, where slight excess ia reported. The
large seasonal deficiency Of rainfall previ-
ously reported in the Upper Mississippi
| and Lower Missouri Valleys3has been still
further increased during the past week and
now ranges from five to ten inches. In
| Illinois and Iowa local showers
have fallen in sections OF the corn belt,
| but not over the entire area and the rainfall
was not in sufficient quantity.
The weather has been favorable for the
harvesting OF wheat which has been gener-
ally completed except in Minnesota and
Dakota, where it is now in progress. In
weather has affected favorahly all growing
crops. The Indications at 7 a. m. to-day,
July II, are that showers will occur in the
next twenty-fo hours in the western pOr-
tion of the corn belt, where they are greatly
| needed.
They SlOped From Antwerp.
| EAsToN, Pa, July 16.-Jules Van Dorm
and Mrs. j. os. Van Heist, who are alleged
to have eloped from Antwerp, Belgium, on
July 2, taking with them $4,000 florins be-
longing to the woman's husband are at the
Barnet house in this city and are being
shadowed by several detectives. writ OF
habens corpus has been issued requiring
Mrs. Van Heist to produce her child in
court at O'Clock next Tuesday afternoon.
The attachment placed upon the baggage
of Jules Van Dorm and Mrs. Van Heist, the
Belgian elopers, was ordered to be released
by Judge Randolph. The court claimed
that the complaint could not be made by
| DrOXY.